URI Stories of Impact

Actually, more like Earth Week. Over the course of a week, this Cooperation Circle brought together 100 children to clean up a sacred river. 

Let's question how we teach children about necessity and ownership by first looking at ourselves as the model. Are we ready to transition to cultures of reduced consumption and sharing? 

Dr. Erick Gbodossou from Uganda asks the Indigenous Network of URI to consider our responsibility in recognizing the poor condition of the living Earth. 

During one of the darkest moments in United States history, a group of individuals decided to turn chaos and fear into understanding and the brother/sisterhood of humankind. 

Rio Inter-Religious Movement (MIR), a Cooperation Circle in Rio de Jeneiro shares with us prayer for the earth sung in Portuguese. 

Members of the URI Family host a women's sweat lodge in honor of Earth and the passage of loved one, Grandmother Janet Windwalker. 

World Albinism Day is commemorated by our Mukua Cooperation Circle (Mujeres Kunas Artesanas CC), and members actively participate in raising awareness about the equality and inclusion of albino people.

By words and actions, people all over the world give voice to URI. Read an example.

Professor Mohammed Dajani, founder of Wasatia Cooperation Circle, and Rabbi Ron Kronish spoke to 20 American teachers of Judaism on “The Need for Jewish-Islamic Interfaith Dialogue” at the Wasatia Academic Institute in Jerusalem.